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Re: How to run "rsh" seamlessly without typing passwd from UNIX to Cygwin on Window 2000 ?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 10:27:28 +0200
- Subject: Re: How to run "rsh" seamlessly without typing passwd from UNIX to Cygwin on Window 2000 ?
- References: <adm4fa$gu$1@main.gmane.org>
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:47:44PM -0700, Yang Xiang wrote:
> I want to port a massive testing script from UNIX to Window 2000 in which it
> include a command "rsh <host> dd bs=16k if=large.dat2 > /dev/null ". The
> host is a Window 2000 client.
>
> I have configured "inetd" using "cygrunsrv" command and it seems to be
> working but I have to type in a password in for the user on the Window 2000
> box.
>
> How do I get around it so I can just run the script without typing in the
> password seamlessly from my UNIX box to the Window Client.
You don't need to type a password in the above example. Rsh only
requires a password when trying to logon interactively. What must
be available is a .rhosts file under the usual rules, obviously.
Corinna
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